ABOUT RICE MEDICAL CENTER
"Our Family Caring for Yours"
MISSION STATEMENT
Providing quality health services at reasonable cost to those we serve in our communities.
VISION STATEMENT
Rice Medical Center is the health provider of choice and continues to achieve highest levels of customer satisfaction. Rice Medical Center continues to add value back to its communities by remaining financially sound and supporting economic development.
CORE VALUES
The employees, medical staff and volunteers at RMC are loyal team members who work together for the benefit of our customers, communities and each other. We treat each other with respect and admiration and foster an environment of courtesy and respect. Personal and professional standards are set high and we have integrity that is beyond reproach. We are dependable, punctual and objective. Our attitude about the Hospital and our communities is positive. The employees, medical staff, volunteers and administration communicate on a regular basis to solve problems and enhance the organization. We work together to provide quality health services and render it in a courteous, compassionate and caring way. Our customers are never discriminated against for any reason and are treated in a timely, consistent and cost-effective manner.

Message from Kurt Sunderman, CEO
I would like to personally welcome you to Rice Medical Center and Rice Medical Associates. As both a life-long supporter and patient of this organization, I can tell you first-hand how outstanding the care is at each of our locations. Our employees, providers, and board members work tirelessly to ensure that we deliver the safest, highest quality care to the communities we serve.
Many of our team members have dedicated years of service to this hospital and clinics because they truly believe in our mission. Here, patients are not treated as numbers. Instead, they are treated like family—with compassion, dignity, and respect. Our goal is to meet and exceed your expectations with every encounter by providing high-quality care with exceptional customer service.
Rice Medical Center offers a 24-hour Level IV Trauma Center, Inpatient and Observation care, advanced imaging and laboratory services, surgical care, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, swing bed (skilled nursing) with transitional and rehabilitation services, and intensive outpatient geriatric psychiatric group therapy. Each of these services is delivered by a team of highly skilled and dedicated professionals.
At Rice Medical Associates in Eagle Lake and East Bernard, our providers care for your entire family—from newborns to seniors. Because most of our staff live and work in the same communities they serve, you will be welcomed by familiar faces, friendly smiles, and caring hearts.
“I trust my family’s care to Rice Medical Center and Rice Medical Associates — and you should too!”
At Rice Medical Center and Associates, it truly is: “Our Family Caring For Yours.”







